When is the Best Time to Start Monetizing Your Blog?

Picking the right time to start monetizing your blog is absolutely crucial if you plan to actually profit off of these techniques. Is monetizing your blog at the very beginning the best way to go? How about after you have been around for a few months?

Stripped Down

What does your business look like stripped down? What does your day look like when you take away all the “other stuff?” What do you really do? What is at the core and guts of what you’ve got to accomplish today? Tomorrow? This month? If you stripped it all down, if you took all the [...]

The Value of Falling Behind

As people who constantly create more and more work for themselves everyday, bloggers often find themselves falling behind and even not getting all their work done. For many, this is a bad thing and can ultimately harm their blog and even work ethic. But personally, I see opportunity.

Social Media Metrics

If you want good social media metrics to track, be sure to pick the right ones. A quick disclaimer: it depends what you’re hoping to accomplish as to which metrics you might want to track. I’ll give you my take, and what we tend to work from at New Marketing Labs, and then you’re welcome [...]

Why Writing Blog Posts Should Not be a Top Priority (And What Should)

There are a countless amount of debates that your blog post content is "king" and essentially the most valuable thing you can do for your blog. While I agree that posting new content frequently is crucial, I think it holds a lot of bloggers back from doing other great things.

Myths of the Modern Age

Some myths for the modern age: Sleep isn’t important. Working is more important. 80 hours a week or you’re not going to succeed. Read everything. Stay up on everything. Follow this person. They’ll help you figure it out. Do what that person does. It’ll get you the same results. Quit your job and just do [...]

Support Your Communities

Today, I’m at PodCamp Boston, the 5th iteration of an event I co-founded with Christopher S. Penn in September of 2006. It was my first jump into the world of events. We knew nothing when we started. We knew that we wanted a bunch of people to come, and we knew we had to raise [...]

Silence as a Business Edge

I worked with silence yesterday. I didn’t look at my email until after 11. I didn’t check into Twitter until much later. I didn’t play the radio in the car. I didn’t turn on my amazing Sonos S5 player at my office when I got there in the afternoon. I just stayed silent. Noise is [...]

Improve Your Pitch’s Chance of Survival

We’re all in a rush. Sometimes, this translates into our attempts at human communication. At the same time, we’re all overwhelmed and have way too many things vying for our attention. This is the perfect storm of ways not to be seen. So, how can you improve your PR pitch’s chance of survival and how [...]

Time and Your Family

The number one question I receive with regards to my own work structure is how I manage to do all that I’m doing and still show up as a member of my own family. It’s not easy, and it requires a lot of “ifs,” but I can share my methods, and maybe you can see [...]

A 5 Word Tagline Can Say More Than 5 Words. The Crucial Need for Power & Voice.

Taglines have been around ever since we were creating something for others to view or buy with competition present. Then, people and businesses turned more to their marketing plan and brand personality when designing or redesigning their taglines. How does your tagline match up in this huge blogosphere? It’s crucial to let your voice be [...]

Facebook – A New Marketing Avenue

Facebook and Social Media - The Next Marketing Opportunity Marketing as an activity is all about ...

What Needs Doing

One way to get much more out of all that you’re doing is to start answering (for yourself) this question: “What needs doing?” There are two elements to being helpful: one is taking useful action at any level (even if it seems beneath you), and the other is taking initiative in the process of taking [...]